IDENTIFIERS
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id:	17768
accession number:	HEN.M.9D-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 8 January 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Backplate, for field use, later adapted for use in the annual Giuoco del Ponte in Pisa. Formed of a single plate weakly shaped to the shoulder-blades and the hollow of the back. The broad, shallow neck-opening and the arm-openings have file-roped inward turns. The backplate is decorated medially with a single incised line, now much rubbed. The lower edge of the backplate is flanged outwards to form a short skirt. The edge of the skirt, which is slightly arched at its centre, has a plain, inward turn. Attached by a single, round-headed rivet with an octagonal, internal and external washer at each shoulder is a modern, leather shoulder-strap. A vacant rivet-hole located just below each of the straps may conceivably represent their original attachment-points. Pierced some way beneath each of these holes is a later hole of larger size, fitted with a lead eyelet. Attached by a single, round-headed rivet with an octagonal, internal and external washer at each side of the waist is a modern leather strap forming a waist-belt. The left strap terminates in a modern, double-ended, tongued iron buckle with rectangular loops. Attached by a pair of flat-headed rivets midway up each of its sides is a later horizontal iron strip which is stepped at its front end and must at some time have served to connect the backplate to a breastplate. Part of the composite armour HEN.M.9A-K-1933
title:	backplate (body armour)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson
creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17768


SUBJECTS
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Giuoco del Ponte di Pisa
Pisa



TECHNIQUES
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formed of a single plate weakly shaped to the shoulder-blades and the hollow of the back; hammered, shaped, riveted, with incised and file-roped decoration
hammering
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
TECHNIQUES
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forming

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1580 - 1590
creation date earliest:	1580
creation date latest:	1590
culture:	16th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 16.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 34.0

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.27

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 34.0